Voyager - Beyond the Magic Boundary

Almost unnoticed by the world's hubbub on our blue planet,
a truly historical event has occurred: Presumably on August 25 of last
year, an object created by human beings left the inner circle of our
solar system, the heliosphere, for the first time. Voyager 1 is now in
interstellar space, where the solar wind is at most a balmy breeze. This
is reason enough to also examine this journey astrologically because
something like this definitely raises questions related to the model of
astrology. And as strange as it sounds, the Voyager project may also
offer a few new insights here.

The first question – "Can the astrological model even be
transferred to a soulless machine?" – is quickly answered. No. If we
had data on the point in time that the Voyager probe was "switched
on" for the first time, this would express something about its
functionality (for example, when certain systems are endangered, how they
work together under certain conditions, etc.). But since this point in
time is unknown, there is just one other astrological approach. We take
the travel data as the starting point.

The Journey Begins

The adventure began on
September 5, 1977. At 10:56 a.m., Voyager took off from Cape Canaveral
with the help of a booster rocket. However, the Project Voyager already
began two weeks earlier; Voyager 2 already started on August 20 at 12:26
p.m. But due to a different trajectory, number Two was soon overtaken by
number One. In this sense, both pictures hold certain relevance: The
starting signal shows the individual processes for the respective probe,
but the start of Voyager 2 can also be considered as the symbolic
manifesto for the Voyager Project as a whole.

And lo and behold: There is a Moon-Uranus conjunction, almost exactly
at an AC of 10° Scorpio. If we take the Moon as a symbol for the homeland
and the origin, Uranus as the principle of upheaval and radical renewal,
and the AC as an expression of the individual basic task that should be
sought and fulfilled during the course of a lifetime, then this
combination shows the fundamental meaning of this project. The origin
principle is transformed away from the planetary orientation (after all,
the Moon is just a satellite of our planet) to an understanding in which
even our Sun is just one of countless many stars.

Seen in this light, this is a journey to the inside, to the innermost
roots, and to our own past. And this is true because out there, beyond
the heliosphere, is the actual homeland of all life. When expressed
freely according to Gurdjeff and his question "Who were you before
the birth of your parents," this means here: "What were we
before the birth of the Sun and all of the planets?"

Part of the entire cosmos and
the whole universe is the answer. And presumably also part of the many
dark suns, which we now call black holes. From this perspective, Voyager
is also on a search for our true origin. And as is necessary during such
a search, we must leave what is "old" behind us and go into the
"beyond." In this case, this is simultaneously also the deepest
darkness. Which gives even the Scorpio-AC at the start a comprehensible
significance.

Astonishingly, this can also be found again in the start of Voyager 2.
And this shows why Voyager 1 has conquered space more quickly than number
Two. The classic ruler of the AC is Mars, and this in turn has a precise
conjunction with Jupiter within one degree. This is the principle of
seizing space and expansion, which also has a direct effect on the speed
of Voyager 1. It is simply faster. In addition, it has something in its
travel chart that every major task also requires: challenge and tension,
expressed through the T-square between the Moon and Neptune (exact
opposition), with Sun-Mercury at the Apex.

But all of this is related to only the point in time when the Voyager
was still standing "with both legs on the ground."

But how can we
study something astrologically if the object has left the Earth's sphere
of influence? If we follow the original principle that the subjective
standpoint is always crucial for the calculation of a radix chart, as
well as its triggers, then we simply cannot continue with the geocentric
perspective. It obviously still applies to everyone who is connected with
this project: the scientists and researchers here on Earth. But different
conditions apply to the Voyager itself. The position of the planets (no
matter which background they may have) changes dramatically in comparison
with the geocentric image. This is a change of perspective that has its
consequences.

Something that could only have been considered in the theoretical
sense hundreds of years ago can now be calculated relatively precisely
and displayed as an image. And we discover some astonishing things in the
process.

Stopovers

When Voyager 1 passed Jupiter on March 5, 1979, this already radically
changed the picture of the planet locations. Because from Jupiter's
viewpoint, there is hardly any space between the inner planets – which,
as we know, also include the Earth. They are all located relatively
close, together with the Sun. This is an image that is similar to what we
know of the Sun and Mercury from the geocentric viewpoint. So from
Jupiter's perspective, there is a dominant cluster of planets; just
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are not integrated into it. At this
point in time, this main cluster was located in the beginning degrees of Aquarius (if we were to keep using the
tropical Zodiac division as the background), directly at and around the
starting IC of the Voyager. The pictures and data that were transmitted
via radio waves to the Earth at this time were unique. These also
included strange sounds such as the atmospheric crackling of Jupiter's
magnetic waves. Our picture of the giant planet became clearer and more
distinct as a whole; from the geocentric perspective, Jupiter was just
moving from Cancer into Leo.

The cluster's sign change of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
is also astrologically interesting. A complete passage of the planetary
collection takes almost 11.5 years; it changes from one segment to the
next once every year (using our computation of time). And the principle
of sign reversal, as we know it from the Earth in the heliocentric chart,
can also be applied here. So when Jupiter is in Cancer from our current
perspective, all of the inner planets are usually in opposition in
Capricorn. When Saturn has just changed to Sagittarius, Uranus is
still at 25° Pisces and Neptune is still at the end of Aquarius. But
oddly enough, the Pluto position coincides almost exactly with our
own.

On November 13, 1980,
Voyager then flew by Saturn – the old guardian of the threshold. And from
the viewpoint of the Voyager probe, which has now taken Saturn's
standpoint, it actually was a new beginning. Since the same basic
principles apply and applied here. Since Saturn was in Libra at that time
from the geocentric viewpoint, we can already conclude from this that all
of the "inner" planets (to which Jupiter also belongs) were in
Aries. And this is exactly how it was – just Mars "limped"
somewhat behind (23° Pisces).

Yet, the Saturnal perspective was also ahead of our time in a certain
sense: Uranus already in conjunction with the GC in Sagittarius (still at
the end of Scorpio for us), Neptune in Capricorn (still in Sagittarius
for us) and while we still saw Pluto in Libra, it was already moving to
the beginning degrees of Scorpio from the Saturnal perspective. This
also appropriately put it at the AC of the Voyager start as an expression
of major and far-reaching changes. And that was also it for Voyager 1. In
contrast to its sister probe that was also allowed to visit Uranus and
Neptune, it now had to take the path to the outer regions of our solar
system. The bell had sounded for the final phase.

The Next Step

For the past 33 years, it has been on this journey into interstellar
space, out where even the Sun itself is just a light point in the dark
universe. This is a journey of no return and with just one single goal:
to explore the space between the suns. After numerous signs last year
that Voyager 1 could have crossed another boundary, this has now been
confirmed by the official agencies. Since around August 25 of last year,
the little probe is supposedly already beyond the heliosphere.

Seen in astrological terms, it has therefore
begun the last, twelfth phase of its journey – into a region that we
cannot compare with anything that we know and with which we are familiar.
So these are the Neptunian areas. But it is somehow still connected with
these principles that are still valid for us. If we calculate the current
position of Voyager 1 and transfer it to the earthly zodiac, the little
probe stood at the so-called Termination Shock on December 17, 2004, at
13°24' Sagittarius, when it reached the boundary to interstellar
space.

This is exactly where, at the precise arc minute, Neptune also stood
at the beginning of its journey.

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